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Leviticus 7 Bible study: The sacrifice of thanksgiving
The priests ate the trespass offering (7:6) and kept the skin of the burnt offering (7:8), and a thanksgiving came with leavened bread (7:13). Meat eaten on the third day "shall not be credited to him who offers it" (7:18): the same Hebrew verb as "credited it to him for righteousness" (Genesis 15:6).
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“If he offers it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and cakes mixed with oil.”
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“The priest who offered someone's burnt offering kept its skin.”
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How the trespass offering was offered
Leviticus 5 and 6 said when a trespass offering was to be brought (5:15, 5:18, 6:6). Chapter 7 says how it was offered. It is killed "In the place where they kill the burnt offering" (7:2). Its blood is sprinkled "around on the altar" (7:2), as with the burnt offering and the peace offering (1:5, 3:2), not put "on the horns of the altar" as with the sin offering (4:25). The same parts are burned as from a lamb brought as a peace offering: "the fat tail, and the fat that covers the innards", "the two kidneys" and "the cover on the liver" (7:3-4; compare 3:9-10). And its meat goes to the priests: "As is the sin offering, so is the trespass offering; there is one law for them" (7:7).
Where it leads to Jesus
The laborer is worthy of his wages
Leviticus 7:34leads toLuke 10:7
The breast and thigh are given "to Aaron the priest and to his sons as their portion forever" (7:34). Paul points to the priests' share: "those who wait on the altar have their portion with the altar" (1 Corinthians 9:13), and goes on, "Even so the Lord ordained that those who proclaim the Good News should live from the Good News" (1 Corinthians 9:14). When Jesus sent out seventy, he told them to stay in one house, "eating and drinking the things they give, for the laborer is worthy of his wages" (Luke 10:7), and 1 Timothy 5:18 sets the same words, "The laborer is worthy of his wages", beside "You shall not muzzle the ox when it treads out the grain" (1 Timothy 5:18). Paul doesn't say which of Jesus' words he means, or name Leviticus 7; reading Jesus' words with the priests' portion is an interpretation.
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- Thanksgiving in the Psalms
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The Hebrew word behind it
תּוֹדָהtodahsay to-DAH
Brown-Driver-Briggs: "thanksgiving", and also "thank-offering". Strong's: "properly, an extension of the hand, i.e. (by implication) avowal, or (usually) adoration", "from 3034". Its first appearance in the Hebrew Bible is here: "If he offers it for a thanksgiving" (7:12). The chapter uses it four times (7:12 twice, 7:13, 7:15), and Leviticus once more (22:29). Of its 32 uses in the Hebrew Bible, 12 are in the Psalms, where it can be a sacrifice, "I will offer to you the sacrifice of thanksgiving" (Psalm 116:17), or a song: "I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving" (Psalm 69:30).
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Leviticus 7 Bible study questions
- 1A peace offering could be brought "for a thanksgiving" (7:12), and it was eaten the same day (7:15). If you brought a thanksgiving this week, what would it be for, and who would you share it with?
- 2"I will pay my vows to the LORD, yes, in the presence of all his people" (Psalm 116:18). Is there a promise you've made to God that you haven't kept yet? What would keeping it look like?
- 3The priests lived from the altar (7:34-36), and Jesus said, "the laborer is worthy of his wages" (Luke 10:7). Who serves you and your group with God's word, and how could you look after them?
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